Cloning, Nucleotide Sequence, and Characterization of the Genes Encoding Enzymes Involved in the Degradation of Cumene to 2-Hydroxy-6-Oxo-7-Methylocta-2,4-Dienoic Acid in Pseudomonas fluorescens IP01

Journal of Fermentation and Bioengineering

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 187-196

  Aoki, Hirobumi ^a   Kimura, Toshiaki ^b,c   Habe, Hiroshi ^b   Yamane, Hisakazu ^b   Kodama, Tohru ^b   Omori, Toshio ^b  

^a High Performance Materials Department   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aromatic compounds degradative gene cluster; Cumene degradation; Pseudomonas fluorescens

Indexed keywords

CUMENE;

ARTICLE; BIODEGRADATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FERMENTATION; GENE CLUSTER; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS;

EID: 0030000545     PISSN: 0922338X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0922-338X(96)82207-0     Document Type: Article

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